Our 2026–2027 Business Plan outlines our continued commitment to showing leadership and innovating to improve access to healthcare for the communities that are most in need.
We will achieve this drive for equity through the judicious investment of flexible funding pool money and reserves.
Nearly 60 percent of our spending will be on projects that support people living with long-term conditions. That’s because just over half of the 300,000 patients registered with us are high-needs – many of whom are Māori or Pacific Peoples with severe acute illness and/or chronic co-morbidities.
In the plan’s foreword our Board chair William Kato Ropata and CEO Mark Vella remind funders and politicians about the readiness of our provider network, through Tāmaki Health, to support more hospital-based services that could be funded and delivered in the community.
We are also forever hopeful that funders will recognise Total Healthcare PHO as the largest provider to Pacific Peoples in South Auckland and deem that we should receive Pacific Peoples’ provider funding.
In the coming year some of our long-standing, innovative programmes are being expanded including our Mana 4 Mums maternity support services for young Māori or Pacific Peoples and their children. Now in its seventh year, the service will introduce antenatal classes and find new ways to improve access to maternity support in clinics and the community.
A big focus will also be on addressing an important driver of morbidity and mortality – access to oral health services. We will be looking to data match with Auckland Regional Dental Service to analyse our patient populations’ enrolment and access to oral health services and identify gaps and solutions to improve oral health outcomes.
*Read the Total Healthcare PHO 2026–2027 Business Plan.
Our flexible funding pool investments for 2026/20207
Meet our Total Healthcare board: From left, front row: William Kato Ropata, Tupou Manapori, Dame Ranjna Patel, back row: Karen Sutton, Mark Vella, Dr Ellis Situe, Kate Moodabe, Sanjay Kumar and Dr Mahesh Patel.
